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THESE are coloured plates, 35×25 inches in size, intended for use in elementary schools. In the first instalment of nine plates, members of the following natural orders are shown: Ranunculaceæ, Papaveraceæ, Linaceæ, Acerineæ, Solanaceæ (two examples), Scrophulariaceæ, Corylaceæ, and Liliaceæ. The plants already illustrated appear to have been chosen at random, but when the series is completed a fair representation of the more important orders will no doubt be provided. The plates are well executed and boldly coloured, so that the chief external characters of the plants shown will be sufficiently obvious to the class. Some details of the structure of the flower have also been given, but these figures are rather meagre. Still, this is not a serious objection, as the chief aim of botanical teaching in elementary schools must always be to teach children to know plants by sight. For this purpose these plates, judging from the few already published, seem admirably adapted.
A. Johnston's Botanical Plates.
(Edinburgh: A. Johnston, 1888.)
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S., D. A. Johnston's Botanical Plates . Nature 37, 582 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037582b0
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